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Hatfield Forest is an ancient royal hunting forest. No other forest on earth evokes the atmosphere of a medieval hunting forest so completely. The ancient trees of the forest are like magnificent living sculptures, peaceful giants worn and fra...
The Epping Forest Visitor Centre is now open seven days a week and has an extensive stock of 'woodland gifts', soft toys, local crafts, maps, books and booklets. Staff are on hand to answer your every query about the Forest. The Visitor Centre sho...
Hainault Forest Country Park is one of the remaining sections of the former Forest of Essex in England. Epping Forest and Hatfield Forest are other examples. It is located partly in Hainault in the London Borough of Redbridge and partly in Essex. ...
Epping Forest District Museum tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in south Essex from the earliest inhabitants to the present. Based in the historic Waltham Abbey, in a building dating back to 1520, the Museum offers something...
Danbury Commons and Blakes Wood is a large open area of heathland, gorse and coppice adjoining ancient woodland Along with Lingwood Common, Danbury Common forms the second largest area of commonland in Essex after Epping Forest. Traditionally c...
High Woods Country Park One of Colchester's beauty spots, the Country Park includes woodland, open spaces (ideal for picnics) a lake and wildflower meadows.Along with marshy areas, hayfields and scrubland, High Woods provides the right habitat for th...
Widely regarded as the flagship green space for the area, Belfairs Nature Reserve - also known as Hadleigh Great Wood - has been managed, through coppicing to create a perfect home for a diverse range of wildlife and is a Site of Special Scientific I...
Covering over 130 hectares, Hockley Woods are the largest remaining area of the wild wood, which covered Essex after the Ice Age 10,000 years ago. The woods are a complex mosaic of different trees, each species growing where conditions are most fa...
Belhus Woods Country Park was originally part of the Belhus Estate, home of the Barrett and Lennard families from the 15th to the 20th Century. The grounds were designed by 'Capability Brown' and work carried out by Richard Woods. Some areas of wo...
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